The rich man Hu was retributed for his evil deeds

The right to property benefits everyone

Xin Qiji was obviously very excited, Brother Wuguan, after the publication of "Jiannan Poems", you must give me a set. As soon as you do this, my heart will be moved, and the words I fill in on weekdays will also be collected and returned, and a set of "Jiaxuan Long and Short Sentences" will also be published at that time.

"Jiaxuan Long and Short Sentences"? Good name, don't forget, give me a few sets.

Let's go back to Shinshu. After sending Xin Qijian away, Zhizhou Yang Yuandao was impeached by Zhao Shanyi, the superintendent of the imperial history.

The matter arose out of a civil case.

Eighty miles southwest of Xinzhou, there is a rich man named Hu Tonghai, who has three or four hundred acres of fertile land, and has also opened a silk cutting workshop, which can be described as a big business. However, this person has always behaved domineeringly, greedy for money and profit, and has a bad reputation.

One day, he took his steward with him and walked around his field. Suddenly looked up and looked around, I felt that the terrain around Xidaling was good: the south was an open land, the Bailong River flowed from west to east, and the north was undulating mountains. If you build a house before this northern mountain, you will definitely prosper.

Looking at it again, his family's land is 100 acres in this area, and the fly in the ointment is that in the corner of the mountain in the north, there is a family, and the house and field are about seven or eight acres.

asked the housekeeper, only to know that it was the Confucian Yu Wenwei's family. asked the housekeeper to find Yu Xiucai and wanted to buy this homestead.

After Yu Xiucai heard this, his head shook like a rattle; Hu said that he was willing to pay a price 20% higher than normal, but Yu Xiucai still disagreed; The rich man Hu said that it was okay not to sell, and to exchange the same amount of land, and the price of the house was calculated separately, but Yu Xiucai was still unwilling.

A poor scholar, so faceless, the rich man Hu was so angry that the roots of his teeth itched: What a stinky talent who doesn't know what to do, shameless for his face, if I don't take some ruthless tricks, you don't know how many eyes Ma Wang Ye has.

asked people to find a few village cattle scoundrels, and went to the vicinity of Yu's house every now and then, pointing at Sang and scolding Huai, and humiliating them. Coincidentally, in less than a month, Yu Xiu fell ill and died. The widow Zhang had no choice but to take two underage children and depend on each other for their lives.

The master died, and the rich man Hu felt that this was a godsend opportunity to take over the Yu family's homestead, so he instructed the village cattle scoundrels to continue to harass. During the day, they threw stones and poured cow dung, and at night, they pretended to be ghosts and scare people, making orphans and widows uneasy.

The Zhang family had no choice but to agree to sell the house and land and move to his mother's house more than ten miles away. At the beginning, the rich man Hu had offered 3,500 yuan to buy the Yu family's house and land. Now, the Zhang family is willing to sell for 3,000 guan, but the rich man Hu is only willing to bid 2,600 guan. also arrogantly said, if you don't sell it, then it's good, and you will continue to harass. In desperation, Zhang had to swallow his anger.

Two months later, Zhang felt unconvinced, and went to the Shinshu Magistrate's Court to submit an appeal, accusing the rich man of humiliating the people, harassing people's houses, and forcibly buying and selling.

After verification and interrogation, Xinzhou Silu believed that Zhang's house and land were sold cheaply, and that the defendant Hu Tonghai had indeed committed forced purchase and sale, and ordered him to compensate Zhang's 900 yuan.

If the lawsuit ends here, neither party suffers, and that's it.

This Hu Tonghai does not give up, he has always taken advantage of others, and now orphans and widows can take food in his tiger's mouth, and his calves are turned over his thighs, so he can pay it back!

He also filed a complaint with the Shinshu Administrator's Court, alleging that Zhang had reversed course and raised the transaction price without authorization after the transaction was completed.

At this time, the Zhizhou and Silu who had tried and decided the case had been transferred out, and the new Zhizhou and Silu were Yang Yuandao and Zhou Shiping, respectively.

After some interrogation, the lawsuit of the rich man Hu was won, and the Shinshu Governor's Court sentenced Zhang to increase the house in vain. Since the transaction price has been negotiated, he must not go back and order the return of 900 yuan, taking into account the truth of the Zhang family, he has made ten boards.

Hu Tonghai, who won the lawsuit, was smug and boasted about his strength everywhere in the market: Shaoqing of Dali Temple is my relative, and the judge of Xinzhou is my buddy, don't you think that your Yu family has lost unjustly? Have the potential to sue!

Coincidentally, an official from the Imperial City Division of the capital went to Shinshu on a business trip and overheard these words.

The Imperial City is in charge of spying on the lawlessness of the military and civilians in the capital, and also has the right to supervise the problem of judicial injustice, but cannot control the Dali Temple and Shinshu officials. This person told his buddy Zhao Shanyi in Yushitai about this.

As a result, this Zhao Yushi exercised the right to hear and say things, and impeached Wei Heng, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, and Yang Yuandao, the governor of Xinzhou. The emperor's instructions: Cheng Song, the imperial historian, will investigate.

Yu Shitai quickly found out the matter: Wei Heng, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, was indeed Hu Tonghai's cousin, took Hu's money, and greeted Gong Yu, the judge of Xinzhou Jiedu, and Cai Zimin, the manager who joined the army, also took Hu's money, and Yang Yuandao, the governor of Xinzhou, and Zhou Shi, who joined the army, did not participate in this matter.

The results of the handling of the case are: Wei Heng, Shaoqing of Dali Temple, Gong Yu, the judge of Jiedu Observation, and Cai Zimin, the manager of the army, were removed from the list and never used; After Hu Tonghai paid 900 yuan to Zhang, he was fined 50 rods, and was assigned to Qiongzhou for bribing court officials.

This is not the end of the matter.

About half a year later, Zhang came to the Xinzhou Administrator's Court to file a complaint. The Hu family is now digging soil in her family's original field and selling it to the porcelain kiln, so she asked the Hu family to give another 3,000 yuan in compensation.

The first time he heard about this kind of case, Yang Yuandao didn't dare to be sloppy, so he called the judiciary to join the army to check whether there were any laws in this regard.

The judicial army told him that all buried and hidden objects in the fields are called lodging objects, and the "Song Order" and "Song Titong" have clear property rights. This porcelain clay obviously belongs to the lodging property, and the law stipulates that whoever obtains the lodging in other people's land shall divide it with the landlord according to the order, and if there is a concealment and does not give it away, he shall be considered to return the stolen goods to the owner and be reduced to three degrees of sin, and shall be imprisoned for one and a half years. Although the land is bought and sold, the porcelain clay in it is hidden in the ground beforehand, and the income should be divided equally with the original owner. This is the principle of pre-emption in property rights.

"Oh, that's the case, then we'll handle this case according to the law."

In addition, if at the time of the sale, the buyer pays the excavation money and acquires ownership of the land, the seller will not receive the proceeds.

"The Zhang family is so reasonable, the Hu family may not have paid for the excavation."

"There must be someone behind her to guide her. Both lawsuits were well founded. ”

Yang Yuandao said in understanding: "Those who are fools are foolish. ”

He took the manager to join the army and the judiciary to join the army and went to Longxing Mansion to ask for guidance from the Criminal Division. After returning, he instructed the manager to join the army and the secretary to join the army to the scene and survey the Hu family's land in this area.

personally met Hu Tonghai's eldest son, Hu Dajiang, and asked the judiciary to join the army to carefully explain the relevant laws and regulations. It is suggested that the Hu family, who buys other people's and has porcelain clay, will be compensated according to the Zhang family, and at the same time, pay the original seller a sum of money for digging up the land for the purchased land.

Hu Dajiang knew the current affairs, actively cooperated, and paid immediately, so that all the 12 families who sold the land received compensation.

A few days later, Zhang and other people sent a plaque to the Xinzhou Yamen, which read:

The people's expectations are worthy of admiration.